Hello everyone! This is deal.II newsletter #18. It automatically reports recently merged features and discussions about the deal.II finite element library.
## Below you find a list of recently proposed or merged features: #5777: Fix typo in changelog entry (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5777 #5776: step-42: Move a statement to where it belongs. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5776 #5775: Require metis for a test to run (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5775 #5774: fix make_unique (proposed by davydden; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5774 #5772: Use std::abs instead of abs. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5772 #5769: Provide general template interface for Utilities::MPI::sum/min/max (proposed by masterleinad) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5769 #5768: Update class doc of p::s::Triangulation. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5768 #5767: Address what 'sequential' means in the context of communicators. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5767 #5766: Address what 'sequential' means in the context of DoFHandlers. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5766 #5765: Update a comment for PETScWrappers::PreconditionBlockJacobi. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5765 #5761: Improve 2d transfinite guess (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5761 #5760: Add tests for complex-valued add_and_dot() (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5760 #5759: Fix DoFTools::locally_owned_dofs_per_subdomain() for empty processors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5759 #5758: Typo in the documentation of DataPostprocessorTensor (proposed by dangars; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5758 #5757: Add static_asserts for complex-valued cases. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5757 #5756: Provide HDF5 quicktest (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5756 #5755: Print out more info when TFI encounters errors. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5755 #5754: Make it clear that our CUDA wrappers only support float and double (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5754 #5750: Fix CUDAVector::add_and_dot() for complex-valued vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5750 #5749: Update documentation of *::Vector::add_and_dot for complex vectors. (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5749 #5748: Inline GeometryInfo members (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5748 #5745: Initialize constexpr arrays in GeometryInfo (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5745 #5744: Fix issues reported by Coverity (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5744 #5743: Clarify documentation of (hp::)?DoFHandler::distribute_dofs(). (proposed by bangerth; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5743 #5742: Rearrange a pointer check to satisfy coverity. (proposed by drwells; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5742 #5740: Make parameters and variables for the internal::AlignedVector classes const (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5740 #5737: Fix warnings: do not use Assert in CUDA kernel (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5737 #5736: Change .cuh extension to h (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5736 #5735: Add cuSPARSE support in the build system (proposed by Rombur; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5735 #5734: Extend scalapack more (proposed by BenBrands; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5734 #5728: Be explicit about virtual functions called in con-/destructors (proposed by masterleinad; merged) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/pull/5728 ## And this is a list of recently opened or closed discussions: #5773: one of the zoltan tests fails randomly (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5773 #5771: it would be good to have macOS tester on Travis (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5771 #5770: build broken on macOS (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5770 #5764: Update introduction to parallel::shared::Triangulation (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5764 #5763: Update DoFRenumbering::subdomain_wise() (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5763 #5762: Tweak documentation for hp::DoFHander::n_locally_owned_dofs_per_processor() (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5762 #5753: hp::DoFHandler does not support MPI process with no DoFs (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5753 #5752: mistake in step-37 in-homogeneous BC discussion? (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5752 #5751: Problem for VectorizedArray * VectorizedArray for complex-valued vectors (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5751 #5747: Does add_and_dot() imply taking the complex conjugate of one vector? (opened and closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5747 #5746: step-58: Solving the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with an operator splitting approach (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5746 #5741: Order of boundaries indicators in GridTools::collect_periodic_faces (opened) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5741 #5727: Convention for cuda header files (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5727 #5686: Bug in DoFRenumbering::hierarchical() (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5686 #5598: Multiplying of DynamicSparsityPattern (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5598 #5546: hp::dofhandler on p::d::tria with p::d::solutiontransfer (closed) https://github.com/dealii/dealii/issues/5546 A list of all major changes since the last release can be found at https://www.dealii.org/developer/doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_8_5_0.html. Thanks for being part of the community! 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